Background: Aloe vera is a popular plant well-adapted to dry,
sunny climate and sandy soils. This succulent plant with a rosette
of fleshy, tapering, prickly-edged leaves is valued for the sticky
juice in the leaves which promote healing. Native to Africa and Mediterranean
countries, aloe is cultivated in California, Texas Florida and Arizona.
The bitter, yellow gel found in the leaves is a skin softener.
The plant is often grown in the kitchen as a handy remedy for scalds
and minor burns. The fresh juice of aloe is commonly used for relief from
minor burns and wounds.

Graphics:

Aloe in the Cayce Readings

Edgar Cayce recommended aloe most often in a formula used as a vapor bath
for the female genitalia. Other uses for aloe were as a laxative,
as an ingredient in a massage oil formula, and as an ingredient in a hemorrhoid
ointment.

As a vaginal sitz (fume) bath, aloe was most often combined with tincture
of myrrh.

Cayce Quotes on Aloe

243-3
Then, to bring the normal conditions to this body
would be, first, that the body rest from labors and strain on physical
conditions. Diet to reduce strain on the whole system. Take
those osteopathic treatments that would relieve pressure on all cerebro-spinal
nerve system, and relieving the pressure in the lumbar and dorsal regions,
keeping the portions in the system of the pelvic organs cleansed nominally
with those properties as douches that will give the antiseptics necessary
to reduce irritation. These will be found in small quantities of
Glyco-Thymoline in large quantities of water. Also using those stupes
as would be found from putting Tincture of Myrrh and Aloes in warm or very
hot water and steaming the rear portions of body to reduce irritation in
system.

222-1
Also use those douches in the vagina at least once
each three days, or every third day, Creolin, and use in sitz baths those
of Myrrh and of Aloes and small quantity. That is, one aloe with
twenty (20) drops of tincture of myrrh in BOILING water, and sit over same,
so the steam may enter the exposed regions of the vagina and uterus.
This will take longer but surer, for the blood stream is in poor condition
for the operative method.

2238-1
. massage the whole cerebrospinal system with equal parts . tincture
of aloes - equal parts, see? This will produce stimulation.
After this is massaged, the manipulation should be given to correct the
conditions from the 2nd dorsal to the 1st cervical.

4333-1
Each day while such periods last, there should be
prepared as this, in an earthen or crock container, at least sufficient
in size that the body may sit over same with ease: Place one (1)
gallon of boiling water in crock, and add twenty (20) drops of Tincture
of Myrrh, with forty (40) drops Fluid Extract of Tolu, with one (1) Aloe;
and expose the parts to the steam arising from same, and prepare the vagina
in such a manner that these fumes may enter the vagina proper, see?

5555-2
(Q) What laxative?
(A) The giving of the alkalins will aid in this direction. When
laxatives are used, best that they be alternated between the combination
of aloes or of Alophen in its preparation, and of those of Upjohn's laxative
wafers.

5555-3
After the changes come about, and it becomes necessary
to use cathartics - then we may turn again to these; remembering that there
must be something in the system for that stimuli in the aloes or the phenophthalein
to act UPON, see? for these excite the gastric juices, especially when
the assimilating portions of system are considered.

5671-6
(Q) Are the itchings on the thighs, legs and vulva separate conditions
or all due to one cause?
(A) Yes or no, and either would be correct - but they are rather
the COMBINATION of the conditions. This may be, in this region, RELIEVED
materially were sitz baths of myrrh, aloes, and the liquid of tolu put
in boiling water and parts exposed for a few minutes. This will relieve
and heal also.
(Q) How should solution for sitz baths be prepared, and what
quantities of each ingredient?
(A) To a half gallon of hot or boiling water add one aloe (These
ways we would put them), five drops of the tincture of myrrh, forty drops
of the balsam tolu or tolu in solution (that the better, in solution).
Duration of the use of these should be from two to ten minutes, but begin
with the SMALLER - or with the two minutes first, then possibly the next
day two minutes, and the third day these may be used for three minutes
- but do not produce too much irritation, for there will be the relaxing
of the whole system as these steams ENTER, and as they act WITH the system.

5671-7
Yes, we have the body here - this we have had before.
Now, in some respects we find conditions not so good; produced mostly by
the improper application of the steam baths - for, instead of the aloes
being in the form as in CONFORMITY to the properties as given - that PULVERIZED,
or anhydrized, is too STRONG, and irritation has been the result.
Also, in the steams at the present - use only this:
To the gallon of hot or steaming water, add (in THIS manner) 5 drops of
the tincture of myrrh, and the balsam of tolu (in the gum - see?) 1/2 dram.
This solution made about 2 minutes - (of course kept covered before it
is used) - not longer, and do not add the aloe unless it is obtained in
its ORIGINAL state - for the GUM of same is that as is necessary for the
addition to the properties, so that the tendency is to penetrate more into
the organs themselves, as the ACTIVITIES of same produce relaxation and
contraction.

2711-2
LOCALLY [hemorrhoids], apply those properties as
would be found in a combination of THIS character; using this as an ointment
following the stools, or WHEN there is irritation. RESTING,
keeping feet up, will also aid these conditions - as well as aid the
general HEALTH of body, with the taking of the medicinal properties and
the manipulations (which should be had at least ONCE each day). This
salve [Tim], or ointment, would be made in THIS manner:
To 1 ounce of OIL of butterfat, add 1 dram of very
fine POWDERED tobacco, 2 grains or 2 minims of oil of aloe, and 2 minims
of oil of the buckeye kernel. Stir well together and use as an ointment.

5663-1
At least two to five days before the periods of
menstruation, for two to three moons, we would use a steam sitz bath.
The STEAM; not sitting in the water or bath - but prepare as in THIS manner:
Two gallons of BOILING water poured into a container,
see? To this water (plain water) add a pinch of alum, one aloe bud, fifteen
minims of tincture of myrrh, and tolu gum (pure tolu gum) the size of a
pea - English pea.
When this has been prepared, then sit OVER such
- so that the puba and the vagina is exposed to the STEAM from same, for
five to eight minutes.
Do this three to give times - that is, from two
to five days before (once each day) - before the regular periods.
ONCE after the cleansing, or after period - see?